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Patented Aug. 3, 1926 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES J. BRAWNER AND GEORGE HOWARD, LINDALE, TEXAS.

COUNTR DISPLAY AND DISPENSING CASE.

Application filed October 14, 1924. Serial No. 743,558.

counter for the ready dispensing, through4 5 sale, of staple commodities; to construct the case of compartmental form with a' compartment for each commodity and a related display compartment with each compartment forst-he display of samples and to provide .10 for the ready access to the main or dispensing compartments and the sample compartments. i

With these objects in View, the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment' is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention. Figure 2 is a vertical transverse sectional View on the line 2-2 of Figure l.,

Figure is ahorizont-al longitudinal sec tional view on the line 3 3 of Figure 2.

The case is preferably of a shallow depth and the bottom 1 is preferably dimensioned to the counter `on which the case is placed and may be of any extent desired to provide the necessary number of compartments.,

nThe front and rear walls 2 and 3. are spanned by division walls 4 to define dis- Ipensing compartments 5 arran ed'in pairs and accessible through hingely mounted doorsn 6. The 'front face. of the case is arranged at an vangle as indicated and opposite each comiv 35. partment 5 is adisplay compartment 7 for the displa of samples, each displa compartment aving a rear wall incline to direct the contents wtoward the transparent panel 8 which is preferably of glass. The 40 transparent panel y8 of each display compartment is removable, being mounted in grooves 9 formed in the sides of blocks 10 constituting the division members between the display compartments and the spacin members between the front and rear wal thereof to give said compartments width.

A common i closure is provided for the display compartments and consists of a strip 1l hingedly mounted on a fixed strip 12 extending longitudinally of the case. The closure 11 is heldin its closed position by a latch member 14 which may be of any conventional form.l

When it is desired to change the samples in vthe display compartments` the closure ymember l1 is unlatched. and raised and the transparent panel of anycompartment may then be lifted and the contents will flow out at the bottom edge and either a new sample or a sample of a different commodity placed therein, the commodity corresponding to the `sample being placed in the compartment 5 just back of the display compartment.

. In order to provide forthe ready openin ofthe doors or covers 6, they are extende beyond ,the rear wall 3 to provide overhanging edges l5 which may be readily gripped .f to raise or open the doors or covers. Thus,

no knobs or the equivalent are required to open the doors or covers andthe top of the case is practically unobstructed except for the small space occupied by the hinges.

v The invention having. been described, what is claimed as new and useful is:

A case for the pur ose indicated having dispensing and disp ay compartments of which the latteris disposed directly in front of the former and arranged at an inclination from a vertical plane, individual Swinging closures for said compartments, a trans-r parent panel constituting the front wall of the display compartment, and guides, in which the panel is slidably supported for its ready removal, the closure for the display compartment engaging the upper edge of said panel.

In testimony whereof they affix their signatures.

. GEORGE HOWARD.

JAMES J. BEAWNER. 

